These Were Bobby Riggs' Last Words to Billie Jean King
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2017
- Emma Stone is being hailed for her portrayal of tennis great Billie Jean King. Steve Carell, sporting lamb chop sideburns, plays Bobby Riggs in the movie, 'Battle of the Sexes.' It's based on the epic 1973 tennis match pitting the feminist King against the chauvinist Riggs. Larry Riggs shared some memorabilia from the historic match. He fondly recalls his dad's outlandishly sexist remarks. American women were appalled. #InsideEdition
Steve Carell was suitable for this role , I can't imagine someone else
Ron Silver was outstanding as Bobby Riggs in, “When Billie Beat Bobby”. I had to remind myself that it was a movie at times! (Holly Hunter was great too, of course)
True but I could see Jim Carey as him
Carell looks astonishingly like Riggs in this film.
I was a sports fan in 73. I wasn't gonna miss that match for anything in the world. I really wasn't rooting for anyone. I knew Riggs was saying everything tongue in cheek. I also knew Billie Jean was in her prime.
It is too bad that the 1973 showdown is not available in its entirety.
It’s actually on UA-cam, now.
@ yeah.. it does seem odd. Old Riggs easily beat other top women and somehow lost against King
@@xooperz plus he seemed rather happy at the conclusion of the match.
Also, why hasn't the "stunt " ever been repeated in the nearly 5 decades since?
How about the number 100 mens tennis player against the number 1 womans player? Won't ever happen.
@@onlyone23km no it isn't...I tried looking for it, only clips available.
You all men commenting Yeh lolll! She smashed him. What has it got to do with anything that she lost to someone who he beat. People have good days and bad days in sport. He lost. Boo hoo!
I remember seeing this on TV in 1973 M. Krebbs, A. Dubois, and I watched this together
If the controversy is so alive they should make a match of this kind every year. I don't follow tennis but I'd definitely watch those for the drama.
Serena William's played against a guy ranked 210th and was annihilated
@@dawd1154 actually that guy played both the Williams sisters back to back and smoked and drank in between sets...feels bad man.
@@calebbennett563 A 16 years old not in his prime Serena Williams
Wills vs Neer is another interesting FvM match. Wills beat Neer who was ranked as high as 20 and was only 32. The women's game hadn't been around that long either.
Saw that movie last night, awesome movie.
Fantastic movie…excellent cast!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I can’t believe this happened
People who hail this as a victory for women/feminism conveniently forget that Riggs easily beat Margaret Court - the world #1 - shortly before the BJK match. All the smart money was on Riggs but he was massively in debt to the mafia bookie. He threw the match, the mob made millions on mug bets, King took the $100,000 prize and Riggs' debt was cancelled. Everyone's a winner. You don't see current top female players queuing up to play John McEnroe because the result is obvious. The so-called battle of the sexes was nothing but a circus act and anyone who can't see that either knows nothing about tennis or is a deluded man-hating "feminist".
The first time I ever played tennis I used a 1955 Bobby Riggs tennis racket.
I am proud to say that my golf partner was one of the most influential people in ladies tennis, Bobby Riggs. He was a key player in getting women equal pay in professional tennis.
We saw Bobby riggs in Missouri
Happy Woman's Day!
xD
He never took it seriously
Never heard of these people seem to me It was a good match Billy Jean King vs Bobby Riggs.
Now he knows
He was a world class hustler....he took the odds in both matches....won, then lost....and pocketed $$$
Yup. Even professional tennis players watched the game and all said he was obvious he was throwing the game
The 70s were so much fun glad I was there best time of my life.
McEnroe said Riggs threw the match *subliminally*
The age gap b/n them is crazy
Nice to no it was a joke ! Loved Billy Jean , fila la Costa those were the days
A lot of people knew they were playing it up for the cameras. It was a battle of the sexes duel, after all. Back then, people could be silly without letting the outrage of something consume them....
Now in 2020 we can have the John McEnroe vs. Serena Williams match.
Unfortunately, the razzing that went back and forth back between these two really couldn't be done in today's world. People would be triggered to high hell. The high point of the event was the back and forth between the two that went on before the match. Sort of like boxers talking smack before a big fight.
@Leo Kwak Serena would be luck to win a game against Federer...
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I remember that match and it was a beautiful time. And more beautiful is how Billie Jean King, in later years, says it was not about feminism, but about equalism (not those words exactly). But, that everybody counts.
Not true. First Wave feminism is for sure (i.e. Susan B. Anthony and all the way up to the early 1960's). The more militant Second Wave feminism (the last 40 to 50 years) surely is not. In fact, they don't even like the term "equalism" and recently bashed a minor celebrity for declaring herself an equalist.
Samantha Jane, egotism? that's what you have spoken in the feminist lecture? lol if they took the name "feminism" from the fight for equality the brands would not have to sell "inclusive ideas" the "NGOs" would not have to collect, open a book before reproducing feminist fallacies
She also said the pressure was on because if she lost, she’d be letting down all women by confirming to those gender stereotypes
Ranger Trekker He obviously threw. anybody with half an brain and a basic knowledge of tennis can see that. He would have made more money losing then winning
Riggs threw the match
Even McEnroe said Riggs threw the match *subliminally*
Cuz he did lol
Thank you Larry riggs
Steve Carrel does look like Bobby Riggs, Emma Stone is to cute to be Billie Jean although they did dress her good for the movie
29 year old woman vs 55 year old man.
He took that to his death
Bobby Riggs confessed before he died
Saw the match for the first time. I don't watch tennis but I know when something is fixed. It looked like a father playing a child.
Whatever women do is never enough. They always have to prove their worth and it's never enough for men.
@@asb4428 Everyone has to prove their worth. Have ever been on the dating market.
Those weren't the last words, because they became friends arter
He threw the match. How delusional do you have to believe she beat him.
An absolute show and a fix of a match.
Even his son's acting is unbelievable
Women always have to prove their worth, but it's never enough for men. You keep moving the goal post of what it takes for women to be respected as equals. How sad
Sore loser lmao
@@asb4428 US football team lost from 14 yr old boys and disabled men Serena Williams lost from 200 below Rank man what more do you want ?? Female sports is done because biological men have dominated it now in disguise of trans what would u say about that now??
Even McEnroe said Riggs threw the match *subliminally*
I was not alive when this happened in fact I've only been alive 12 and a half years but looking back at it it looked like a historical moment but the bobby riggs was like in his 50s when this happened and Billie jeane was 30 so it's not really a surprise she won
"Battle of the sexes"
0:41 Nice to see you, to see you
Bobby Riggs is arguably one of greatest hustlers ever
I really wasn’t interested in this film but Steve Carell was very good and made it watchable but a man who had been retired for 15 years playing a 29 year old is not really an interesting story. They should get a match between Federer and Serena. Now I would watch that.
Federer would win and I don’t even watch tennis
@@kingswiper2845 I completely agree which is why you will never see it. Also in the original Bobby Riggs was in his 50’s.
Serena cant win a top 500 male player
@@dawd1154 McEnroe said she would be rated 703
This was an amazing movie, love Bobby riggs i watched some his real interviews and he was a fine and funny man! Billie Jean made a good stand for rights aswell!
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She was 29, he was 55. Of course she has the advantages.
SJW be like let me pretend he was 20 year old
That day was about B.S., MONEY ALONG WITH RECOGNITION.
Current tennis, or sports in general, isn't about money or recognition? That is the world my friend...get used to it.
Why, because he lost??
@Leo Kwak oh maybe. Didn't think about the money
How many children does Billie Jean King have, to be this great role model for women?
Bobby Riggs took that to his death
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He threw the match
Not to take anything away from Billie Jean King because she was a talented tennis player but anyone who thinks her match against Bobby Riggs was just about feminism, equality, and women's rights is a fool. This was a good film and I remember Emma Stone's character Billie Jean King referring to Steve Carell's character Bobby Riggs as a clown at some point. She was right because he was a clown. What she didn't realize at the time though is that he had every right to be a clown because they were both in a circus. The public and media wanted Riggs to be a chauvinistic pig so that is the role he played for them. They wanted King to be the woman who knocked Riggs off his chauvinistic high horse and so that is the role she ended up playing... whether she knew it or not. As far as the match goes, King was twenty-nine years old playing against a man in his mid-fifties who was washed up and years past his prime. Even Riggs knew that he couldn't beat King and that the sport had pretty much past him by but he was determined to put on the show that the media and public wanted. The sad, ugly truth of this historic event is that both King and Riggs were being used by people who wanted them to represent something.
Actually Riggs had beat better female tennis players than King just before. The REASON he lost was because he was deep in gambling debt to the mob and he bet against himself and took a fall. Without this, he would have still beat King.
Billy Jean King Was Born in 1943 she was 30. And like the previous person said he lost because he was addicted to betting and he was so damn out of shape.
no disrespect but she was 29 he was 55 and 26 year age difference she was at the top of her game, he was retired for 20 years, that would be like Serena Williams playing John macanro now
Don't underestimate Johnny Mc.
He obviously threw. anybody with half an brain and a basic knowledge of tennis can see that
Shhhhhh, You're Not Supposed To Point That Out!
Yes, yes and yes!
@@ch1oee_0702 oh so you see a ton of 55 year olds competing on the professional level do you? Haha
Billie Jean King
Emma Stone ❤❤❤❤❤
Was the big thing they did together faking the match?
Hey I know this guy!
This was, and remains such a joke. King was #1 and yet, the 200th rank male would've beaten soundly.
Michael Jackson shoul have sung:"Billie Jean King is not my lover, she just a grandma claims that she was the one, but the Riggs was 55!' Bidi bidi bum.
Larry Riggs has been good
Excellent
So basically he was trolling the feminists for a laugh and maybe not quite as sexist as he made himself out to be.
I never knew this happened hahahahah
And now my woman wears my pants. Thanks Bob!
55 years old at that time. Wow.
We need more bobby Riggs in the world to fight the feminist metoo.
WWE???
Threw the match.
Any tennis player who watched the match could see the fix was in
"The fix was in". Maybe, but there is absolutely no concrete proof of that, and believe me many have tried to prove it. For whatever it's worth the Riggs' doubters, he passed a polygraph.
@@jasona9 A polygraph is not accurate and Riggs' brother stated that Bobby threw the match to cover gambling debts.
Any desperate man who can't face reality can make up that.
@@fenecofeneco19 You can't face the reality that he threw the match. I would have been impressed if Billie Jean King defeated Connors but she wouldn't have
@@fenecofeneco19 yea it's not like riggs destroyed the number 1 female player a month priorit to the game easily and he was involved with chicago mobs and gambling debts... and it's not like it's super obvious to the tennis players that the game was rigged
Why didn't Billie play somoene who was her age?
because none of them were looking for a match against a woman, except an old dried up tennis player who just wanted to be in the spotlight one last time.
Iceican He obviously threw. anybody with half an brain and a basic knowledge of tennis can see that. He would have made more money losing then winning
Because she knew better.
@@ch1oee_0702 Do you not know how odds work? Everyone expected him to win
@@ch1oee_0702 obviously you dont got a brain to know how gambling system works or how sports players rigg a match. This is not even looking at the fact that riggs destroyed Margaret the number 1 female player only 1 month prior to this math
Do did he throw it or what?
No he didn't
@@saloni3962 Yes. He did.
The match was too competitive to be a thrown match.
i dont get how this match is taken seriously he was 55 years old
@@ch1oee_0702 Okay name one 55 year old professional athlete that doesn't play golf if 55 isn't that old to play sports at a high level
He was 55 and lost on purpose lmfao one thing i hate about this movie that it antagonised riggs so much
Chloe Phillips, Don’t pretend pro women stand a chance against pro men in tennis
He claimed that he could beat any female competitor so...
Serena Williams said in a interview that she would lose 6-0 6-0 6-0 against the top men player. That sais it all.
Riggs was no top mens player. You said nothing.
@@Provemewrongwithfacts when he was 55 and had been decades since he retired definitely not.
I am bobby Riggs jr for real
This is a joke the man was 55 and she was 29 Google it if you don't believe me this is so funny
So age does not matter it's like he wasn't coming to the court with a walker,!
@@debrablumrogers5096 Also Bobby threw that game because he bet against himself.
This is what they made us do.
They said, okay. If you want equality, you have to prove it.
They said, compete against men, literally and physically. Publicly.
They, the establishment, wanted to humiliate women. Watch “ The Newlyweds “ a game show. You’ll see.
A 29 year old female tennis professional, the best in the whole world. Played a 55 year old troll who hasnt played professional tennis in over 15 years... and after a competitive game, she won...
Had he lived he would be dead
Aaaaaaaaaand spoiler
3rd!!!
Bobby got SCREWED😂😂😂
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No offense but they put a retired man vs a young woman
supreme mango of the future excuses. maybe the better player just won. don't be sour
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Before this event, Riggs went up against Margaret Court. His quote was, "Let's get down to it," he wrote. "Men have all the advantage athletically, both physically and psychologically. Let it remain at that and honor the respective achievements of both, carefully refraining from jealousy -- creating, so-called [male vs. female] championship events which can only originate from the gate-receipts angle." He trained hard to go up against her and beat her due to: The old man won the match easily -- 6-2, 6-1 -- but not because he was in such great physical shape. Court hadn't done her homework. She expected traditional serve-and-volley tennis from her opponent. Instead, Riggs fed her course after course of garbage: lobs, dinks, blob balls, drop shots, funky spins.
It was Bobby who provoked billie :)
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And it was a fairly even match, would have been more so had he taken it seriously and trained. Bobby Riggs was the greatest tennis player in the world (maybe ever) in his prime. Aging him to 50 takes away some of that, but just some. When he jumped over the net at the end of the match, and congratulated King, he said something to the effect of "I underestimated you."
They were good friends so the whole feud was just an act. He had the last laugh.
The macho-ness was an act--Riggs was playing up the crowd, trying to regain some publicity. The actual match was real, according to both players.
"He had the last laugh". Whatever helps you to sleep at night. His own son admitted Riggs confined himself to his hotel room after the match and would be severely depressed for the following 6 months, asserting he had made a mistake.
Exiled Eve, That's not what Riggs' brother and others have said.
p.s.-- So why did Riggs tell Billie Jean that he had always loved her right before he died?
It is, since it came from his own son and one of his closest friends. And I trust facts, not speculation from anonymous sources. His son also said that right after the match, Riggs said to King he had underestimated her. So no, he thought he could win her by a stretch and failed miserably. "So why did Riggs tell Billie Jean that he had always loved her right before he died?" What does that have to do with anything? You don't have a point.
Correct.he must have played her in a bad day !!
.haters will hate
"We did something big together." So they rigged the match?
No, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs fair & square. It was the first tennis match I'd watched. Bcool.
@@jerrysmith8436 Bobby Riggs was 55yo tho so,.....
@@matthewchipman1153 yeah that's not exactly rigging is it......!?
@@saujatyamandal6846 No its not, but regardless of if it was fake or not, it was still a big advantage to Billie.
@@matthewchipman1153 obviously!!!! I don't think anybody should argue that any male athlete is likely to beat the female because of their anatomy. Billie Jean King would have obviously lost to an athlete of her own age......
But as far as I know Bobby Riggs despite being 55 yrs old HIMSELF decided to challenge Billie Jean and he lost. So that's on him. She had advantage and she beat him.
I always chuckle at the Billie Jean King/Riggs match in 1973. She was smack dab in the middle of her prime and Riggs was an old man. He was 55. It was 34 years since he was at the top of his game. Basically what we saw was the best female tennis player in the world was able to beat a male tennis player from decades ago who was old enough to be her father. It is laughable that feminists think this was something that proved they could compete with men. 45 years later.............they still can't. What would be brave is the best tennis player in the world (men) going up against the best female. If they win that match then it is worth waking up to.
No woman will ever be and the NFL or beat a man as an Olympic contender. For the same reason no woman will ever wear a Green Beret unless the Army lower's it's standards like they did to make one woman on Army Ranger.
@Ryan Gad "Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors"
-Cato The Elder
It was never about women being able to compete with men profissionally in sports. It was about women proving their worth and ability as athletes. Have you heard the things Bobby said about women? How no woman could ever beat him and how they should just stay in the kitchen and bedroom? She proved him and everyone who thought like him wrong. Women don't have to be as physically strong as men to be worthy of respect and be in control of their own lives. That's what it was about.
@@asb4428. That’s right. Women weren’t paid equally in tennis at the time either and there was less opportunity. It wasn’t about women literally playing against men on the tennis court 😂
Margaret Court "I deliver the Word of God, lay hands on the sick, speak in the heavenly tongue and give hugs to all who need them,” she says. “People sing, dance and praise the Lord.” Her church distributes truckloads of clothes and 25 tonnes of food each week to Perth’s homeless, hungry and poor."
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She also pockets millions from her ministry. You forgot to mention that fact.
I don’t get what the battle is. A man twice the age of his opponent who is the current world champion at the time loses in a close match. That’s not very fair
riggs beat margaret court easy ,and she won twice as many grand slams as king so he may have let king win.
Of course this is coming from a man. I watched the match, and Mr. Riggs was perspiring profusely. Even his son admits he barely trained for the match. His ego would never let her win, but she did.
@@normadelpin4289 his goal was fame not winning the match.
@@normadelpin4289 I also watched that match. And as someone who plays tennis, I can say for sure that most of those shots to net Bobby aimed on purpose. Good aim, but he was too obvious
Riggs was a compulsive gambler who was in serious debt to the mob. This match was a way for Riggs to get out of debt and stash some money offshore. He purposely threw the match. In the end debts and greed were more important than equal rights for Bobby the hustler.
Bobby Riggs was 55 Billie Jean was 29 at the height of her power.little wonder she won.If she had played Borg or Conners.she would not have had a cat in hells chance of winning.i have seen the movie.it was as much about Bille Jean coming to terms with her sexuality as it was about tennis.
Glenn Pryce To be fair Bobby riggs played and defeated to female number one, Margaret court, before this
Yeah, and it was just a match, so when he's 55, he won a number one and lost to a former number one, that means he in his prime is better than both of them, use your brain.
I remember this match. I agree that now it seems like a no brainer. But you have to realise at the time the opinion of women's abilities was so low that most people thought she couldn't possibly win.
Gotta be the best, or else you're the worst? Shake you head!
Glenn Pryce the whole point is she wanted space for women so don't talk about age, he would've said no, but he came forth for the match. She won just accept the FACT.
55 year old vs 29 year old lmao... and he was a gambler and threw the match hahah this ia proven!!
Bobby Riggs threw the match and look at the age difference anyway. A woman can never compete against the man for the same reason there will never be a woman in the NFL. I never saluted a female officer as a soldier. There were times for a cam claws to insubordination and a trip to Leavenworth is what it could have been if it played itself out like I know it could have....
Riggs beat her before, top women players got destroyed by old and below average male tennis players again and again. And yet, they only make a movie on the game that was openly rigged and thrown by Riggs
Of course you believe it was rigged...Your male fragility would be shattered if you accepted the truth. How sad that men have to continuously put women down to make themselves look bigger.
This movie was bubblegum and so was the match. Was BJK a great tennis player? Yes indeed! But what did her beating BR prove? Not a damn thing! At 29 she beat a 55 year old in a competitive match that he didn't even train for, and bleeding hearts jump for joy! LOL. Pathetic. BR at 29 would have smoked BJK. Maybe BJK should have played John Newcombe in '73. LMFAO. But some love to believe fairy tales.
I thought he was doing a hustle the whole movie. I really thought he would of put money on himself to lose and than lost on purpose.
what a joke, bobby riggs was 55 years old and billie jean king was 29 years old when they played. If women can truly compete against men, then let's just remove the womens league and have one league for both sexes, see how that works out, lmao
I don’t know if Riggs threw the match,he was a hustler, but he knew how to provoke the feminists,and could lead them around by the rings in their noses. Just like I’m doing now.